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If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. We have all seen this when doing arithmetic. When I have
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“He was thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well?”
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“It is the heart that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.”
― An Anthology: 365 Readings
― An Anthology: 365 Readings
“The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls--their looks, their clothes, their social life--do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy was one of the few.”
― A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
― A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
“The kindness which consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just.”
― Les Miserables
― Les Miserables
“Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
Between The Wines Bookclub
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This is a bookclub I started with a few of my friends. We drink wine and read books. We watch the movies of books we've read, we attend wine festivals ...more
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